the only american company invited to the status last in the first. place here first time in its history the prestigious stanislaw ask you first of all even international students to stage nine of the best drama schools from russia europe and the united states are putting on production the concept is an open class teachers students are sharing their views on the acting and future of theater but many participants this is truly a once in a lifetime experience they did not want to miss to bring all the props and costumes from the other side of the world students from the american conservatory theater raised five thousand dollars. or less a welcome to the show thank you thank you very much for coming along to be well first of all i would like to ask you about coming here well i have new third year student. in the american conservatory theatre raised money through the internet

this is paid to pay for the trip to pay for those that well they said in the description that they put on the intruder they said for them it's going to be a once in a lifetime experience yet is that true why it's those lansky first also boarding for your kids well. for a couple of reasons in the state status last stylists lasky is the brand name when it comes to actually training and all the different techniques. being used in various schools the root of all those techniques systemic. it's also true that they studied chekov scene scenes from three sisters cherry orchard those major plays in the first year of their training we looked at lots of pictures of russia at that time they worked on the scenes for two and a half months and i think at the time no one imagined they would possibly be coming to the motherland so when the opportunity came up it really seemed like a fantasy. come true because they had loved working on those play listen to the the

a c. t. has brought the house sort of bird with the those letters to what was the performance received world here in moscow why do you choose this particular well because we thought it was one of the best productions we've done in our school and it was done with this group of actors last winter in february and it was so well received in san francisco i think it's a very innovative and inventive production and i thought that it was really a piece of art not just a good student production and last night it seemed to be very well received they they were called back for a second and third curtain call. by the audience but i think it combines music and dance as well as the text of the play so it's not told in a completely straightforward realistic way. in europe i was very doing in the beginning of the program the city was actually the only american.

american theater school invited to moscow one way they choose you well i was told when they first wrote me that they had that you were the best there was the americans are polite you have a lot. you know i have a colleague who remain in who'd been working a lot in moscow who called me and said i would like to recommend you for this do you think a city would want to go and i said yes i think if we got an invitation we'd love to go but i know that we were when an atoll is smelly and ski wrote he said that he had heard very good things about us and i do think that our i do think from conversations i've had since i got in here that what we're doing and our training right now is simpatico as we say with with things that are going on at the moscow art theater i think we were a good school to invite sutras. you mentioned he heard chu and he invited you

to all who watching him and sending some somebody to at least look well my colleague who recommended us who he'd been working with for six or seven years was able to speak in detail about so in fact he had had somebody come and see if that specifically for the first of all somebody who knew us well it's like you know you know you know the old jews joke go. i hate stravinsky's you. know but i don't watch myself. so i guess somebody was seeing the world because i didn't so i think that's exactly what i thought it was you could either well to me about the stone's throw skew system in america whenever i talk to anybody probably for from new york to how it will not you know the status landscape as to why why do you think it is it's so popular in the united states well i think there are a couple of things when you say the stanislaw school system it's

a pretty broad term he wrote three or four books and the interesting thing is that some teachers drop all of their they're teaching from his first book and there are things there is he put forth in his first book that by the third book he's moved far away from him so if you have a teacher who's drawing private early from the later books you have very different pedagogy then in the early books i do think though that i mean a lot of what i teach as an acting teacher comes from stars lasky. he was very interested in developing the inner life of the actor and then how that inner life is expressed through behavior and through physical character and. how imagination mixes with memory it's a holistic system so those things that have to do with the inner life if an actor does not have a very well developed inner life he's not going to be very interesting on camera or on his you know even the. i know that really dumb person i mean someone actually

you know that about intelligence and our life are the same thing or you could be maybe not very smart but have an inner life a feeling like rather than thoughts that can be very interesting i'm camera i'm sure you and i can think about a little slow learn a bit more about the status landscape and its famous acting method in the report now by spotlight. these photos showing a young man intoxicated by theatre putting on different costumes take an impressive poses this is constantine stanislavsky in his twenty's the offspring are one of the richest families in russia he had more interest in acting than in his family business he described acting as the greatest pleasure and the greatest torture and throughout his life try to understand how to achieve authenticity on stage the system eventually turned into a complex method for producing realistic characters. humor and see what i'm

offering you this is important i shut you off immediately from the plane of acting . in the plane of your life and your memories you're stronger you have huge material there the system went beyond the boundaries of russian theatre it was taken up by some of the most influential act in teachers in the united states including least tries burge stanislavski highest praise was just two words i believe the phrase gave the name to a price for act in the chipmunks which has been a new word in moscow meryl streep and jack nicholson are among the recipients. stanislav has always been an indispensable part of the russian culture but these days the feeling genius comes alive the moscow theater which studies must be founded is now celebrating the one hundred fiftieth anniversary of his birth with an international acting festival stage personalities from around. globe gathered in

moscow to perform in tribute to someone who truly revolutionized acting. how did the sternness loose skew system actually conquer america because when i asked people did they start talking about it because of it is that right yes michael chekhov's work is important too but he's michael chekhov is comes after stan's lofsky actually and in some way he was his student at one point and broke off and started to do his own system which is most common the feature that's best known is the psychological gesture that something that michael chekhov really develop because i always hear that michael chertoff was was the the source through which the third came i don't know that that's no i don't really let's not how i have to stand i think liz strasberg and stella adler were the two acting teachers

in the united states and they were both actors admittedly and they each had experiences with status lask in russia and brought or or learned things about the system least strasberg i think not from status lasky but stella adler came to russia and met status last king it's been a long time speaking to him and then she brought back her notes and began to teach directly from those any of the russian names i mean the names russian theatre the influence your well i would say michael chekhov is a huge and status lasky. and time chekhov's plays are a huge influence and a huge teaching tool in the united states are you teaching to oh absolutely not only the material i mean you have to you have to give the teaching to to to work with it but the we also teach the material you know one of the great artistic partnerships i think in western theatre is that of anton chekhov and constantine stance lasky because i think in. stanislaw ski check out found the director who

could bring his plays in to life and just in that clip we were just seeing with the status lost interest and authenticity on the stage that's the kind of playwright the chap was in his interest was interested in authentic characters authentic characterisation so the two go together if you want to teach standards lasky system chuff pov it's a great playwright to use what a go what about that you see today is the method the only technique used to teach. you something or. i would say that i mean some people say that what standard starsky really did was codified the rule great rules of acting that were going on for centuries he just managed to put it down and know what better way than anybody else ever had i think that we also draw on a french technique caulks mask or we draw on comedian work and clown work some of our voices were is from the british tradition so i think we're pretty

attractive get a c.t. actually milissa smith concert to directly out of the acting out of the american conservatory theater talking to us here in spotlight studio we'll take a break now as you will which i will try to talk her into spending another fifteen minutes with us don't go. wealthy british style. but i'd like to go.

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a guest on the show today as miller says smith concerts he director in hand are acting out of the american consumer truth theater in san francisco melissa welcome back to spawn my many hollywood stories many hollywood actors movie stars and also taught in the stanislaw of ski system and apparently there's a great difference between acting on stage and had in the movie so if we continue to talk about standards lasky does it mean that this russian really designed such a universal thing the good girls for both yes i think it is it true. that bill a holistic system. i think because it has so much to do with the development of the individual stem the stuff they had a chart of all the different aspects of his system and at the bottom of the chart they were numbered the different features of the bottom the chargers number one work on yourself that's the number one thing in his system and you know on camera

if you don't if you're not telling the truth on camera. the camera doesn't lie and on stage you can get away with some things that you can't get away with on camera you have to project out on stage you have to let the camera go in. steps lasky system because it addresses the body the imagination the mind the memory the emotions dresses everything if you work are all those things you can do it all so so so you know when you're on camera that's very interesting you have to either tell the truth or you have to believe in your lines exactly. you know i guess that's true and staged you know but i think the interesting thing about the camera the best definition i've ever heard between about the difference between the two kinds of acting is that when you're on stage you want to think about reaching out to the audience but when you're in front of a camera you want to think about letting the camera go inside you you know this is

a thought about it a lot i mean i've been acting many people say that that even that there's an old russian word for outing meaning meaning being will learn true middle way being so trying to be somebody else but it looks as if a real and to a good actor in order to deliver something something. to the public he has to lie he has to pretend to try to really deliver what he thinks is right is the true will this is this so this sounds awkward but but is it true well i would put it slightly differently. i know what i'll tell my students is that there's more than one truth and then i just want to prove you know many truths and when you're working on a role you have to find what in yourself lets you identify with the character and their circumstances so that you can one of stanislaw skis iconic phrases is

as if so if if the story involves a woman jump caught in a fire in a building and having needing to escape and you the actor of never been in a building in a fire you don't have to have been there you have to be able to imagine what it's as if what would happen to me maybe i'm not afraid of fire you know it's as if i met a great height or it's as if i might just might be my eyes are confused by you know you know you know is that that's what it is how do you think it was i mean if you're just straightforwardly like if you say it were true and if you almost in theater on television it is a listen to you i mean if you really want to see the thing right i think i mean this may be true but this is the this is not what people always want to hear from you well but as an actor you do have a script yet but then you know yes i suppose as an announcer a newscaster is something that you have to find but the same thing not apply i think. is it more prestige if we can continue comparing

movies and watch more prestigious for an american actor to attract in their on stage or in the movies well if there's movement and probably more money in them here is more money and so for the america this is the also the culture of celebrity but many actors make movies and then sometimes go back to the stage meryl streep was mentioned earlier is one of those actresses who has gone back to the stage and done things be the only newly to bond which happens happen all the time in russia go back and you know know that this same actors they they continue playing in the theater then make a. the movies are the same turning going back and so forth i mean in america does not in this way you either in hollywood or broadway yeah well i don't know if it's either or so i think there was a period where it was either or right now actually i think you can find movie stars going to broadway to do things maybe not all of them not all of them but you know is part of it is does moscow have a place i mean not moscow does russia have

a hollywood you know los angeles what hollywood and los angeles says and then there's new york and russian hundred isn't moscow so so it's all the same place certainly it's not all in the same place in the united states but when cinema was invented when people started shooting movies especially the talkies in that kind of instance. everybody predicted it's going to kill clear now and they didn't know the save. then they said the television is going to kill but now they're saying internet is going to kill everything the internet is going to kill television theory movies and paper resume books did do you think this is true do you think that something may kill theory you know no the theater has been around since ancient times i think part of why it's because it's a communal experience and i think that there are that and i think the internet technology it's all great. but i think people still need communal experiences what

kind of theater will be done due to a very the the social networks are actually replacing life communication no i don't i don't feel that way i think there's the social media are very useful i think that they cast a wide net and you can be in touch with all kinds of people but it's also somewhat superficial it's not the same as a live conversation i've been receiving refused to switch off the balance in theaters i know because i don't need to be on line you know i don't know if it's because they need to be alive and i think they're just currently entranced with the technique but i don't know that that means they will always be i do think it's a challenge right now i agree with you that it's a challenge but i think people still need it part of where i say that too is there at least in the united states right now there's all kinds of. what we call pop up theater flash theater and this is there that might suddenly happen on the street corner you know i'm lame i just start to have it in the middle of traffic it's

amazing to me crowds of people stop to watch this and then they stand and talk to each other about it when it's fun i'm going to go the streets it's all over europe and you know how london i reserve the cup and hagan you can see that overturning especially the clowns and you know exactly what you see i think some right now i think that clown theater and theater are having an ascended sit ascendency but i think that'll change again. what about the modern american theatregoer because i have a mask because in russia it is becoming more and more fashionable young people to go to theaters how wonderful really there are more and more of them go and it's become sort of a trendy you know i've seen have you seen that it. is of the same in the streets or the more like elderly intellectuals i don't know if they're intellectuals but i do think that in the states i can't say that i think that we're all morning at one than we do to get more young people to go to the theater i think there are places where young people are going to the theater but if the but i've noticed from

traveling in europe and here that it's different in europe there are more young people in the theater than in america why well we are the home of rock and roll and there's the rock concert where you will find more young people we don't aren't also baseball. baseball fan i think for most of the advocates for growth but i tell you i never understood baseball until the they took me to a match ten she's there is nothing in your eyes. fabulous theater and it's interactive very interactive so you'll find that you know young people there but you know the theater tradition is much younger our country is younger the tradition is younger the american musical is where it's where i think most american theater goers like to go to a musical they want to be entertained they don't necessarily want to see a serious play and. that's a generalization but i don't like it was true they do when they want to do the

thing too. is that the reason why psychics is so important in the states because because if they want to do some thinking they can. if americans want to just you know i think americans in hershey know we could peel would pick a book from the shelf instead of going to a psychic we page just a young americans are very far from the shelf but i also think americans i think science is important to americans and history is important to americans. i think. and i think that music over theater sometimes has a point there has always been this between between classical theater as you said a from coming from the haitian times. and modern theater modern travels modern schools of and that's going to do you do you think this is good do you think this is this competition is healthy for of course i think all competition is healthy for an art i mean i think that it it should be if you get pushed one way and then you get pushed another i don't think there's any one answer book but should we don't lead the old the old productions that are becoming sort of out of date well i think

there are productions that can become out of date you know there are productions that a revived for thirty forty years. that can be out of date but i don't know the place necessarily the greeks are still there's a production of electric going on in the open at our theater in san francisco right now i think that those plays. they're relevant a particular time so for example if you get if you get views on the internet that this is old time and i mean this is we don't like you this is good this is this is does that mean you have to jump at the make something new or you have to try to explain to the audience or you that i think you have to try to agree with well it's made me come not exactly i think you can put it on the shelf for a while but i don't think it's dump it you know and i don't think that there aren't that that there are new players that are absolutely outstanding in black and white movies i mean you know exactly we still watch black and white movies right and we

tried coloring them and we stopped that didn't work we didn't want to have melissa smith talking to ourselves spotlight thank you thank you very much for being with us just a reminder that melissa smith is the conservatory director and head of acting at the american conservatory theater in san francisco and that's it for an hour from all of us here if you want to have yourself spotlight you can always rely on spotlight will be back with more free time comments on what's going on in and outside russia until then save arctic.

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